The Journal
Everglades Stories
History, legends, wildlife and the people of the River of Grass — researched, sourced and told as stories.
Our Mission: There Is Only One Everglades
Preserving the past. Protecting the present. Inspiring the future. Why Godfather of the Everglades exists — and why there is only one Everglades.
Why the Everglades Is a River, Not a Swamp
Stand in the sawgrass and the water looks still. It isn’t. How the Everglades moves — and why that single fact explains its history.
December 6, 1947: The Day the Everglades Became a National Park
It took nineteen years, two presidents, a stubborn landscape architect and a book about a river of grass. The long road to Everglades National Park.